Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach. Episode 1, Learning from Failure: Three Vignettes
(2024, original release: 2022)
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eCourse
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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2022
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
15065544
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
What does a 19th-century British railway disaster have in common with the 21st-century destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans? All were engineering failures that resulted in important improvements in the engineering process. Discover the very human issues that contributed to poor engineering decisions in these three cases, with disastrous consequences
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Stephen Ressler
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2022
Mode of access: World Wide Web